Good News, Bad News

Hello all,

As I'm sure you've noticed, I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to this now. I'm in the process of launching my own letterpress line AND getting ready to move - all of my time outside of my fulltime job is now being consumed by one of those two activities. I've made the decision to suspend Try This at Home in favor of the line, since I clearly can't split myself in two and do justice to both.

HOWEVER: I've accepted a position blogging for Modish and my articles will appear every Tuesday and Thursday. They'll be articles around building a business for the most part, and we're starting off with some posts we're transferring from here to Modish - although updated, revised, and generally spruced up. I encourage you to read it! Stay tuned over there, as I'll announce the launch of the letterpress line through that article.

Thank you for all of your support over the past year (plus), and I hope you'll find me at Modish!

Maddy.

Oh So Modica.

I'm glad I accidently left my wallet at home today, because as soon as I saw these fascinating necklaces by Modica, I immediately started fawning. When you're me, fawning almost always leads to a purchase, and, for full disclosure, my entire expendable income for the moment has been thrown in the way of Amy Ruppel and Barack Obama, though clearly for entirely different reasons. When I saw that Modica also can custom make all of their designs with any color in their palette, it became even more fortunate that all I have on me are the few spare bills left over from my recent trip to Pittsburgh to pick up my press (more on that later), which will probably barely buy me lunch today! Never fear, however, as Modica has been appropriately bookmarked and will most certainly be a way for me to avoid saving my extra dough in the future.

Run, Run, Run!: Amy Ruppel Art Sale

Amy Ruppel's monthly art sale is going on now, so hurry on over before everything is sold out! I snatched up this guy, above, called "So Blue" - he'll be quite happy in my office, I think! Unfortunately the other first choice I had was sold out within the minute it took me (literally!) to type up an email for it, which I guess in a way is good - I tend to want to blow too much money when it comes to Amy!